Orwell (programming language)

OrwellParadigm| Lazy, functional

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Designed by| Philip Wadler
Developer| Martin Raskovsky
First appeared| 1984; 42 years ago (1984)
OS| Unix
Influenced by
Miranda
Influenced
Haskell

Orwell is a small, lazy-evaluation functional programming language implemented principally by Martin Raskovsky and first released in 1984 by Philip Wadler during his time as a Research Fellow in the Programming Research Group, part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Developed as a free alternative to Miranda, it was a forerunner of Haskell and was one of the first programming languages to support list comprehensions and pattern matching.

The name is a tribute to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the year in which the programming language was released. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, most of the computing practical assignments for undergraduates studying for a degree in Mathematics and Computation at Oxford University were required to be completed using the language.

## References

* Wadler, P.L. (1988). Introduction to Orwell 5.00. Programming Research Group of Oxford University.

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